RUSSIA today launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of the war, killing at least one civilian and wounding several others. The barrage came just days after rare direct talks between Moscow and Kiev failed to produce a ceasefire.

Russia battered Ukraine overnight with its largest drone attack since the war began, Ukraine’s military said Sunday, ahead of an expected phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending hostilities.

Trump has shifted U.S. rhetoric from supporting Ukraine toward accepting some of Moscow's narrative about the war. Kyiv and its European allies are working hard to persuade him that it is now Moscow that is holding up a truce.